Publications

Colonel General Valerii Mironov, a former deputy defense minister and now the principal military advisor to Russia’s premier, recently stated that the “Cold War still goes on and only one definite period of it is over.” To be sure,...

Since the early 1980s, China has consistently sought to accelerate the modernization of its conventional forces. The essence of that new policy was captured by Chinese strategists in a “set of eight Chinese characters: zongti fanqwei; zhongdian fazhan (strengthen...

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The United States is at a crossroads as it becomes increasingly clear that a proper understanding of society is impossible without an appreciation for the powerful religious dynamic that affects the attitudes and behavior of the populace. A recent...

Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity. By Francis Fukuyama. (New York: Free Press, 1995). Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. By Robert D. Putnam. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993). Read the full article...

On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace. By Donald Kagan. (New York: Doubleday, 1995). War and Reason-Domestic and International Imperatives. By Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and David Lalman. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992). The...

In December 1994, Mexico shocked world financial markets with a sharp devaluation of the peso. Huge outflows of capital from Mexico before and after the devaluation seriously depleted its international reserves and threatened default on the country’s foreign-held debt....

Among its other unexpected effects, the end of the cold war posed anew several moral dilemmas in U.S. foreign policy that had previously been subsumed in the larger struggle: how to respond to ethnic violence in marginal, nonstrategic areas;...

Martin Libicki is always interesting, is frequently correct, but ultimately fails to persuade… Read the full article here....

Thanks to cyberspace-which may be understood as the sum of the globe’s communications links and computational nodes—any piece of data can show up anywhere almost instantly. Will cyberspace kill geography? Colin Gray’s excellent article argues, and correctly so, that...